Category: History

Welcome to part 2 of the Canadian Museum of Making tour. From the area that I like to call the “grand hall”, the tour continues thru a hallway adorned with numerous pieces of belt-driven machining equipment. All pieces of equipment look like they are fully operational. You really do feel like you are in a Victorian era manufacturing facility. This

A few weeks prior to Beakerhead, I saw on the Facebook page a posting for one of the events happening on the very last day of the festival. It was an exclusive tour for 25 people to the Canadian Museum of Making in Cochrane. I immediately signed-up but got word that I was wait-listed. I had known about this private

Very cool archeological news today. Parks Canada has been successful in finding one of the two lost ships of the Franklin Expedition! Unknown yet if it is the HMS Erebus or HMS Terror. However, the Erebus had an engine from a steam locomotive installed on it, so that might make identification easier. Whaling ships last saw the two missing vessels